1. The Case of the Treacherous Toupee
Air date: 1960-09-17 · 60 min
An executive who has been "missing" for two years returns on the day of an important stockholders' meeting and ends up being slain.
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Season 4.
28 episodes in the catalogue. Explore the stories and air dates, then choose an episode to open FRAME’s player.
2. The Case of the Credulous Quarry
Air date: 1960-09-24 · 60 min
A shady lawyer, a client facing a murder charge and a woman witness demanding a payoff help complicate this case for Mason.
Open episode 2 ↗3. The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker
Air date: 1960-10-01 · 60 min
Perry Mason is hired by a harassed business executive who wants to rid himself of a larcenous, freeloading nephew.
Open episode 3 ↗4. The Case of the Singular Double
Air date: 1960-10-08 · 60 min
Perry Mason is hired by a distressed girl who assumed the identity of a non-existent cousin to report her own disappearance as a suspected suicide.
Open episode 4 ↗5. The Case of the Lavender Lipstick
Air date: 1960-10-15 · 60 min
Lawyer Perry Mason takes the case of a girl chemist accused of slaying her employer when planted evidence is found to indicate that she had sold secret formulas to a rival cosmetics firm.
Open episode 5 ↗6. The Case of the Wandering Widow
Air date: 1960-10-22 · 60 min
Perry Mason is hired by a woman who is being blackmailed by a long-missing witness in the six-year-old murder of her husband.
Open episode 6 ↗7. The Case of the Clumsy Clown
Air date: 1960-11-05 · 60 min
Perry Mason is hired by a circus clown to untangle a case of bigamy and head off a threat of blackmail.
Open episode 7 ↗8. The Case of the Provocative Protege
Air date: 1960-11-12 · 60 min
Perry Mason is hired by a distinguished concert pianist's widow to determine whether the musician's fatal plunge off a cliff was murder or suicide.
Open episode 8 ↗9. The Case of the Nine Dolls
Air date: 1960-11-19 · 60 min
A little girl's plaintive request for help in learning who she is leads Perry Mason into an international quest and a murder trial.
Open episode 9 ↗10. The Case of the Loquacious Liar
Air date: 1960-12-03 · 60 min
Lester Martin's life takes a horrible turn for the worse when a man breaks into his apartment, forces him at gun-point to drink half a bottle of Scotch, and then drives him into the country.
Open episode 10 ↗11. The Case of the Red Riding Boots
Air date: 1960-12-10 · 60 min
Ann Farwell is miserable over the separation of her parents. Things aren't made any better when her father starts seeing Rita Conover, a scheming woman half his age.
Open episode 11 ↗12. The Case of the Larcenous Lady
Air date: 1960-12-17 · 60 min
A pretty secretary enlists Perry Mason's help when she finds herself framed in a blackmail plot, then is accused of the death of her employer's wife.
Open episode 12 ↗13. The Case of the Envious Editor
Air date: 1961-01-07 · 60 min
Slimy publishing tycoon Donald Fletcher buys controlling interest in a respectable but financially troubled publishing house. Fletcher turns things upside down by turning the publications into scandal sheet featuring photographs of scantily clad women.
Open episode 13 ↗14. The Case of the Resolute Reformer
Air date: 1961-01-14 · 60 min
Perry Mason, helping a citizen's committee fight a proposed construction project, gets more deeply involved than he had planned as bribery, political blackmail and murder develop.
Open episode 14 ↗15. The Case of the Fickle Fortune
Air date: 1961-01-21 · 60 min
Going to Perry Mason for advice after $153,000 in estate money is stolen from his car, civil servant, Ralph Duncan, soon needs more than advice, when he is caught at the scene of a murder where part of the missing money is found.
Open episode 15 ↗16. Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Waylaid Wolf
Air date: 1961-02-04 · 60 min
Womanizing playboy Loring Lamont has his sights set on Arlene Ferris, his father's shapely secretary. He lures her to his beachfront bachelor pad with seduction on his mind. Arlene slaps the rotter and flees taking Loring's car back into town.
Open episode 16 ↗17. The Case of the Wintry Wife
Air date: 1961-02-18 · 60 min
Vindictive Laura Randall is slain after she plots to blow up her husband's unique underwater sounding device.
Open episode 17 ↗18. The Case of the Angry Dead Man
Air date: 1961-02-25 · 60 min
Willard Nesbitt stages his own death so his wife can collect on a large insurance policy. Then he learns his business partner means to cheat the wife out of some mining property royalties. Nesbitt's "return to life" is short lived, and Perry Mason defend
Open episode 18 ↗19. The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff
Air date: 1961-03-11 · 60 min
Crooked jewelry store owner Karl Addison learns that he needs an operation which will temporarily blind him. Addison makes plans to rob his own store knowing that his sightlessness will provide him with a perfect alibi.
Open episode 19 ↗20. The Case of the Barefaced Witness
Air date: 1961-03-18 · 60 min
When convicted embezzler Fred Swan returns to his hometown it means trouble for Iris McKay, a former client of private investigator Paul Drake.
Open episode 20 ↗21. The Case of the Difficult Detour
Air date: 1961-03-25 · 60 min
A road builder facing bankruptcy decides to have things out with the man responsible for his plight, only to wind up being charged with murder.
Open episode 21 ↗22. The Case of the Cowardly Lion
Air date: 1961-04-08 · 60 min
When a new baby monkey is found missing, Hilde Fursten is blamed by Dr. Walther Braun, a visiting dentist. That evening, Dr. Braun arrives at the zoo to perform oral surgery on a lion and is found dead in the lion's cage.
Open episode 22 ↗23. The Case of the Torrid Tapestry
Air date: 1961-04-22 · 60 min
A museum worker returns from prison, sent there after being falsely accused of setting fire to an art collection, to settle accounts with the man who framed him, only to find himself held accountable for murder.
Open episode 23 ↗24. The Case of the Violent Vest
Air date: 1961-04-29 · 60 min
Advertising executive Herman Albright is in the wrong place at the wrong time wearing the wrong clothes. These mistakes cost poor Herman his life in a case of mistaken identity. Perry is called on to defend the fashion model charged with the crime.
Open episode 24 ↗25. The Case of the Misguided Missile
Air date: 1961-05-06 · 60 min
A misfiring missile, an inquiry and death on a firing range lead Perry Mason to the defense of an Air Force officer court-martialed on a murder charge.
Open episode 25 ↗26. Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Duplicate Daughter
Air date: 1961-05-20 · 60 min
A mixed up mess awaits Perry as he struggles to put all the pieces together. Blackmail, murder, a boyfriend who spent the night, all add up to one great case.
Open episode 26 ↗27. The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather
Air date: 1961-05-27 · 60 min
Young David Gideon has his head turned by, what else, a conniving woman. In his haste to protect her, and her supposed good name, the source of her pain turns up dead. Namely her estranged husband.
Open episode 27 ↗28. The Case of the Guilty Clients
Air date: 1961-06-10 · 60 min
It looks as though Perry Mason may finally lose a case when the man he is defending makes a dramatic courtroom confession.
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